Date:         Fri, 6 Feb 2009 09:30:53 -0600
Reply-To:     Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joe Matise <snoopy369@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Maximum width of a text file in terms of characters
Comments: To: Lou <lpogoda@hotmail.com>
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According to SAS help (
http://support.sas.com/onlinedoc/913/getDoc/en/hostwin.hlp/chifoptfmain.htm)
the maximum LRECL is 1 megabyte (1,048,576
)

The file can be larger than that of course, but it must be split into lines
less than or equal to 1,048,576 bytes (characters, in a non-DBCS system)
long.

-Joe
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Lou <lpogoda@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "chumba" <vikas.dharamsattu@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e49e32eb-3d2e-4812-8d99-fcdfb7b8e411@w1g2000prk.googlegroups.com...
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone knew how many characters are there in a
> > sindle line of a text file?
> >
> > Any light will be most appreciated.
> >
> On a platform like Windows using FAT32, the file size limit is 1 byte less
> than a full 4 gigabytes, or (2**32) - 1 bytes, according to articles on the
> Microsoft web site.  A "text" file line on that file system can therefore
> be
> within a gnat's whisker of 4GB long.  Most files have considerably shorter
> lines, but how long a given line is depends on who/what created the file.
>